The 13 countries, including Italy, are calling for "a favourable industrial and financial framework for nuclear projects", promoting "research and innovation in particular for small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors".
The joint note was issued by Paris, the head of the nuclear alliance, at the end of a meeting with the European Commission.
French Energy Transition Minister Agnès-Pannier Runacher, who initiated the meeting, said at the start of March that the objective of the alliance was “to structure cooperation on the whole nuclear value chain” and provide Europe “with all the tools to reach carbon neutrality by 2050”.
The document was signed by Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Italy, along with Belgium and the Netherlands, signed as observer countries.
At an informal Council of Energy Ministers in Stockholm in late February, ministers agreed to foster closer cooperation between their national nuclear sectors in order to ensure the best cooperations across supply chains and to explore joint training programs and industrial projects, in order to support new projects, notably based on innovative technologies, as well as the operation of existing power plants.
They also discussed the possibilities for increased scientific cooperation and the coordinated deployment of best practices in the field of security.
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